This fat ittle cunt is almost nine weeks old and hasnt laid me one godamn egg yet. Is she too obese or something?
This fat ittle cunt is almost nine weeks old and hasnt laid me one godamn egg yet. Is she too obese or something?
This fat ittle cunt is almost nine weeks old and hasnt laid me one godamn egg yet. Is she too obese or something?
let me guess you own zero roosters
WRONG
maybe your rooster is an incel
You do know hens lay eggs without a rooster, right?
Good to know. Did yours start laying later than others too?
Caught the typo in my first post. They're 19 weeks old.
She'll come around. I recently got bresse chicks to start a chicken empire with. They start laying around 4.5 months.
How do you make sure that there is baby in eggy
Rooster usually gets the job done. You can candle the eggs after like a week in the incubator and they show signs of development if fertile.
Good good, now why are fat chickens bad mothers?
Bred for egg laying efficiency ubove all else. Before incubators they would use brood hens bred for nesting behavior.
I was thinking about getting some broody bantams for this. Wonder if I could get them to sit on duck eggs... the ducks give zero fucks about their eggs. Lay them in the middle of the cold ass night, too. Pic not related. A couple of these gals will lay on eggs, but not for long
gross. i'm starting to see how vegetarians feel when it's put so plainly.
Raising,Killing, and eviscerating chickens either makes you really appreciate the meat you get or you become a vegetarian.
yup. as it should be. everyone should know where their food comes from before they make their own ethical calculus around what they eat. also, don't eat your egg-laying chickens. they become something more like pets after awhile with their own little personalities. keep different meat chickens.
The Bresse will lay for 1.5 months before slaughter, but I also have a small coop of pet chickens. I may even keep some of my favorite/best bresse for pet chickens as well.
Chicken based threads are always some of the comfiest. Even on Culinaly they are almost always drama free and fun places to post about chooks.
A hawk killed one of my egg laying hens a few weeks ago. I discovered her shortly after death and was able to scare the hawk off and eviscerate the chicken etc I was pissed because she was my favorite hen. I didn't want her to go to waste though and I sure as shit wasn't going to feed the hawk.
Why cover your ears and block out reality when you could raise some birds and receive free eggs and meat.
I'm hard
have a nice day
like a pussy?
Reminds me of that old gif of a tiny dog fucking a kitten
I am a few months ahead of you, so your empire dreams have been rugpulled. Where’d you hear about bresse anyway?
A fancy butcher shop/restaurant I used to go to imported some from france. I saw them selling a 45 dollar whole chicken and had to try it. Baked with just salt and pepper it was the most delicious chicken I've ever had.
Fast forward a few years and I've got plans with my neighbor to raise a flock of 1200 birds, so I can harvest 200 a month. They are ready for harvest at 4-6 months old. They lay 250 eggs per year, so we will be getting like 10k eggs a month as well.
If you look on Culinaly I've been posting in the chicken general.
>chicken general
I hope you take this as your title. Also gl bro!
Ty! The chickens are red, white and blue feet, so it wouldn't be too crazy!
They match the french flag perfectly, which is pretty funny.
Last I was checking in on the chicken general I was the only one posting on Culinaly about bresse, but that was maybe 8 months ago. I’ll have to check it for your posts. I have similar plans, where are you located? How many you got currently?
Sounds like you have fully raised some bresse chickens. They seem like great birds temperment wise. The chicks are playful and very curious. What do you think of them? Do you like the quality of the eggs also?
I'm in california. We are starting off with a batch of 35 chicks and will do spiral/clan mating to maintain healthy genetics.
I haven't done large scale farming like that, but my neighbor maintains a flock of 200ish laying hens.
I think that starting with the 35 initial chicks and building up a flock will be helpful to kinda learn the ropes of larger scale farming like that.
Our plan is to have 6 10k sq.ft electric fence areas with coops for each 200 bird "batch". They take 6 months to mature, so we will always have an empty pen for the next batch of pullets. Then we will have smaller breeding pens for eggs to hatch and maintaining/improving genetic health with our flock.
I've found a great looking brooder set up for 200-300 chicks. They're called hovers or something like that. It will go in a custom built shed that will facilitate efficient cleaning.
>finishing
Yes, I plan to make them as delicious as possible.
I know our plan is quite ambitious, but I think we can pull it off. The initial investment is quite low, and I have plenty of time to devote to it.
Are you selling them for profit? How much returns can you expect to make and how did you fund everything so far?
I will be selling them for profit. 200 birds and 10k eggs will gross like 15-20k per month. Not quite sure on the actual profits yet.
I'll be adding pasture raised mangalitsa pigs on top of that, but at my farm. Somewhere around 100 per year I think. They sell for like 1200 each. Saw a local add selling Halfs for $7/lb, and whole pigs for $6/lb.
Look up Joe Salatin. He has really sustainable and well thought out livestock farming techniques.
Don't know about meat processing or are you being a goofy guy? Animals go through rigor mortis after death. This makes their muscles stiffen up like crazy. You have to let them age in the fridge for 3+ days before cooking and or freezing or the meat will be really chewy.
Just fyi beef is aged 2 weeks minimum after slaughter. You probably wouldn't like freshly slaughtered beef.
Nice, I've bought half a pig a couple of times from small farmers near me. Taste pretty delicious. $7/lb is hanging weight so real price/lb will be more expensive right? Darn, it used to be $4-5/lb. I'd still buy it though.
As for funding I have funds, and my neighbor works a normal job. The initial cost to start up is not really that much. I think around 10k depending on how much free wood we can scrounge up.
And have you farmed at scale before? Are you gonna finish them on milk and corn? I’m moving a bit more patiently personally, but have the space and resources to grow enough to make it worthwhile. I’ve sourced some cheap feed at scale too.
We have 10 acres to play with, so I'm thinking I will rotate the fences to new ground 3 or 4 times a year to keep the soil healthy.
>Did yours start laying later than others too?
sorry bro, I just don't remember.
Those cocks have it better than most of this board.
GET HIS ASS
Why would a rooster be necessary when the eggs aren't fertilized? Is there presence, but not actual mating, necessary to trigger ovulation?
It's not necessary, but many chickens ovulate infrequently if there's no rooster present.
so how does the rooster fertilize the egg? does he like sit on it or something
so he does sit on it
The look on that rooster's face...
Sometimes the artists have a giggle, eh?
lmfao caught me off guard with that
>how dis make u feel boi?
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When I give her the look, she knows that cloaca's getting rekt tonight.
Why is he looking at me
so that u know
so basically they scissor their buttholes together
Is it pronounced Cloak-uh or Clo-ah-ka?
Clo-ayyyy-kah
Why is rooster necessary in the process?
t. city dweller.
It isn't
it is if you want those eggs to hatch
They need to feel safe and not be stressed out in order to lay eggs
Roosters are 100% not necessary
you need to be 18 or older to post here
GOT HIM!
city queer detected
If you know the breed you can look up when they are expected to start laying. 9 weeks sounds young still. Are the other hens of similar age laying eggs already?
I have three buff orpingtons (fat yellow ones), three RI red hens, a RI red rooster and a few juvenile Plymouth rocks. Reds have been producing eggs for a month now and they're the same age. The reds seem to be less obese tho.
nice. i've had all those breeds at one time or another. they've all been good layers. keep your girls safe from raccoons, foxes, and other varmints.
>FUCK OFF NORMIE RRRRRRRRREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
she'll be fine. the buffs I has were schizo, but good layers. layed for years and years. barred rocks are my favorite.
It'll take time. I forget how long ours took but it was longer than 9 weeks.
Barred rocks are the best. My cinnamon queens go broody all the time, my gold laced wyandottes and my black australorps are all way too adventurous, but my barred rocks just chill and lay a bunch.
Purdy birdie.
?
This roostah is enormous, and I think he is still going to grow some more.
Just made a little rhyme about how I think your chickens are cute and pretty. 😀
>my gold laced wyandottes
I had gold and silver. Both were far less approachable than the barred rocks I had. If I get chickens again it will be straight barred rocks.
Google says that breed takes ~20 weeks or 5-7 months to maturity, I'd say wait if your others hens of the same breed aren't outpacing it.
Snap
Snap neck
Snappies
she cute
Feed her more calcium. She probably doesn't have any.
I bet if you stepped on her a bunch of eggs would come shooting out of her butt
cute
why does that one duck look so smug its hiding spot sucks
They look like that at all times. They are very smug high strung birds. This one punted my Sapphire Gem out of the way in the line for mealworms
Who was in the wrong here?
Gemmifer (the chicken) cut line in front of female duck #1, but then was rear-ended buy female duck #1.
I would resort to traffic laws to settle the matter
btfo
vital farms huh
do you work there or do you just have the spare cartons
>do you work there
No, someone gave me those cartons.
Those eggs are unwashed. If you were eggsperienced enough you would be able to tell they are not store bought.
You mofos will find anything to act snobby about, even goddamn EGGS
Noticing shit on eggs is not snobby. Have you ever seen shit on eggs in the supermarket before? It's just simple deduction.
yes i have
Is vital farms any good? Are they legit "pasture raised"?
Couldn't tell you. I haven't bought eggs in years, just collect my own.
Someone gave me those cartons.
Man I like your chickens. Are you the rice autist by chance? We can make peace
do they still eat birthday cake every week
what an absolutely gorgeous lady
so rotund and spherical
such pleasant ombre to her plumage
thank you for sharing OP
she doesn't feel safe enough to lay eggs.
Observe.
That's a tribble
45 cornish cross. These dudes grow like crazy. They are 1 month old and should reach 5-7lbs by 8 or 9 weeks.
Only at night.
>pov: you are one of anon’s chicks
I remember i had these fuckers, my god they are some of the stupidest chicken breeds i have ever come across
EAT DRINK SHIT REST SLEEP REPEAT!
BEHOLD!
THE DUALITY OF MAN
mmm cornish hen!
We built a moveable coop for them. I think they're kinda ugly. They are bred so they have less feathers. This makes it easier to clean them.
but don't the poor bald chickens get cold?
Nope. Chickens are excellent at body temp regulation. We tarp the enclosure at night and they all huddle up to keep warm.
If they get wet and cold they will die. Just cold and they'll be fine.
You should have a few of them. It's more fun and eggy if you have like 4 or 6.
Two 9x9 coops can hold around 50 cornish cross from 3 weeks to slaughter time at 9 weeks. Doing this once per year is all that's needed to raise your own chicken for the next year-ish.
Hey anon can I keep a single chicken as a pet? will it need a friend?
not OP but fellow chicken master. i wouldn't get a single hen. they are very social and it will be the chicken equivalent of lonely. they need a group and a pecking order to be satisfied little beings. i wouldn't keep fewer than 3, and it's good to have more than that because chickens love to up and die, and introducing new chickens to an existing small flock is kind of a pain sometimes.
they're all on their own little timelines, fellow henmaster. just be cool and enjoy her presence clucking around the yard.
high quality thread
this is one of the Culinaly threads of all time
Have a homemade chick webm. 😀
That webm was taken 10 days ago. This was from today.
look how insanely fast they grow!
Those looks like Cornish Rock Cross, anon, I'm hungry
>t.raised those fast-growing bastards for almost 15 years
Imagine living this good. Sleeping on 1000lbs of food with 3 of your wives.
Correct. They are seriously hungry dudes. Had very good luck with them for a first attempt. Only 4 chicks randomly died in the brooder and 1 cull out of 50 to start with.
those are some good rates, anon, 5 losses out of 50 isn't too shabby. I'd usually lose one or two to the leg wasting disease CRX are susceptible to, but let them play around outside during the day (grew up on 5 acre farm growing up) so for the most part they were fat, contented bastards by the time it was ready for slaughter in August or so.
Goddamn that chicken was fine. Nothing makes you appreciate meat more than hunting/raising it yourself.
that's a man
Here is a cute video of the lil guys.
lil nuggies
lmao that speed demon at 8 seconds
h-he's fast!
love chiggens
>FINALLY, A GOOD FUCKING THREAD
post more chikkums, and also say how to acquire such treasures
kthxbye
her birdussy is too tight to pop out an egg
Identifies as a rooster.
Some hens do. They have been known to crow or grow a spur
Make sure she's not egg locked
I want to stomp and kill the little chicks for fun, wtf is wrong with me
Nothing that's normal
actually deranged
Invasive thoughts. Talk it out with someone. And if that doesn't work, prescription drugs will help.
Or just control yourself.
They arent invasive though, if nobody knew It was me who killed them by doing that then I would do it
Lol, yeah, you're fucked in the head, kid. You're one of those lads that would rape and murder if it was legal. Get help
Ah you're fine bro, just ignore the thoughts and they'll come and go like the weather. As you age they'll become less frequent and intense, simply live your life and don't read into it.
>t.Fellow unsharable thoughts anon.
you gotta teach the rooster how to buy her a drink...then she'll put out.
how tf does a chicken create eggs without a rooster
They are unfertilized. Humans produce eggs whether a peener is involved or not.
The eggs are produced and expelled regardless of fertilization. Hens have a set amount of eggs in their ovaries. It's like menstruation for humans, but every day instead of once a month.
When an old hen runs out of eggs it's called henopause.
>henopause
Anon, you've done it!
Oh, they'll gladly eat their own eggs. And once they figure out that they can, it's a tough habit to break
>henopause
I chuckled
>what is ovulation
BA GOCK!
This has been a good thread.
Some animals, some chuckle-inducing memes.
She is racking calcium. If the supply is inadequate they won't lay shit.
They aren't. They get plenty of crushed oyster shell.
I moved over to pic related because i got tired of throwing out moldy maggot infested food using the bucket holes method. In the pic you're referencing that's a water bucket with six auto filling cups. One of the cups broke so I had to patch it. Ive thought about building what you mentioned but they smell like shit.
Also what is your auto feeder set up? There is one that uses that same bucket inverted and filled with sloppa. Flies lay eggs and maggots wiggles out the bottom.
r8 the ladies
Marry
Kill
Fuck
Eat
Eat
Fuck
epic thread
just threaten that bitch and see how she reacts
Probably by laying even less eggs
hens don't tend to lay eggs when they are stressed
4.5 weeks old.
>TFW no land for chickens
Frolickingfowl bros are living the dream
Keep them indoors. Potty train them. Reap the benefits that come along with indoor chicken farming. You KNOW who fears them.
This was me today at my neighbor's place. They rent 10 acres for 300 dollars a month. No power, but there is water.
If you get 100 laying hens you can make 300 dollars by selling eggs fairly easily. I believe in you.
Cute doggey :3
She is a cuddle monster, but also a diligent chicken guardian. Akbash x great pyrenees. There's three of them, and I love them all. 🙂
Kino snoot and eyes
I will steal this webm and post it in doggey threads on /wsg/ >:D
mfw
Aryan
>she
You JUST know
The only thing I know is that you are an idiot.
Don't be mean to chickens. >:[
i wouldn't go out of my way to either way. and crushing their brain seems like a weird thing to do to be honest
Why does it seem weird to you?
>things that could be easily understood by a normal person but impossible to understand on this psycho website
The irony here is that you think you're normal and think normal people would find that weird.
The irony here is that you think you're normal and think normal people wouldn't find that weird.
>N-no you!
actually, your post was the no u. thanks for playing
Are you saying it would be easy to understand why crushing the brain of a chicken is weird if you're a normal person? I'm honestly curious of why you think it's weird.
It's just one of a handful of ways to humanely kill a chicken. It isn't weird at all. If you eat chicken it would be weird to not want them humanely killed.
i'm not a psychotherapist
I know. You made the statement, so explain why you said it. Like I said I'm just curious.
you wouldn't get it
Boring ass, lame ass, scared ass bitch. I knew you were going to chicken out. Lmao.
He's a fucking retard, he can't explain shit.
Stupid and cowardly.
He's just a pussy.
You're one of those people that support abortions but seeing a poor heckin puppy on the street brings you to tears, aren't you?
i don't support abortion
At least you have some consistentcy.
Me on the right.
ask for a psych referral from your doctor
I figured you out.
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If you dont have cocks you have to give it to her moron.
my neighbor has at least one chicken even though it's illegal to have them on such a small property. nobody believes me when I tell them about it though.
they do, they just don't want to listen to you because they aren't pieces of shit that can't keep their noses out of someone else's business like you.
no i think they're just dumb
what a lovely garden you own, the only green things ive seen for the past 5 years are the walls of a bakery 2 blocks down my apartment
What's the best way to kill a chicken and should it be out of sight of the other chickens?
Bolt gun, or the neck breaking thing. I recently found out that just slitting their throat is not a humane kill. You need to destroy the brain, stun them, or knock them out before slitting the throat. Slitting the throat takes 2-4 minutes to actually kill the chicken.
>I recently found out that just slitting their throat is not a humane kill
you thought you were killing a human before?
Nitrogen gas chamber with a rapid air exchange
I always preferred the chopping block:
>two nails in stump
>put chicken's head between nails
>gently stretch neck
>chop with hatchet
Then you spray down the stump before the next chicken visits, sometimes they get upset when they see the blood of their slaughtered brethren, and a calm comfy chicken = relaxed chicken = better meat. When they panic and get stressed their meat tastes worse.
when you have a rooster do you have to eat the eggs every day unless you want the eggs to hatch?
aren't you eating rooster sperm then?
No. Eggs will only hatch naturally if a momma hen decides to go broody. She will spend about 23 hrs a day sitting on the eggs for roughly 27 days.
In other words: The heat of the hen activates the egg.
I find that hard to believe, not gonna lie
It is true! If collect eggs for 7 days and put them all in an incubator at the same time they will all hatch around that 27 day mark.
You can tell when there's a broody hen around because her poops are like 4x as big as normal.
Had to move them for a sec to clean their area
Me on the far left, no farther left.
Why are you so very sad?
i love chiken
12-16 weeks bruh
Hey OP, what do the attachments on the bucket do?
When they arent broken they're auto filling water cups. One of the fat girls must have ran into one of em.
Im butchering all my hens in November if it doesn't freeze over before then. They're getting old and eating eggs.
How are you going to cook them?
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
Post you killing them here please
>bring out the cone
Wow what a thread.
Are you German?
once youve eaten meat from a really mature chicken, supermarket meat feels like a plastic imitation. grandpa raises them but only has few now since hes old and cant care for more than a dozen.
Absolutely true. The texture almost reminds me of pulled pork.
>Aged meat
Bock
If it is the only one not laying, give it some time or watch her and make sure she isn't laying somewhere in the yard. I had some free range chickens and my egg production seemed to slow down for a while only for me to find that some had started laying in a bush in the yard instead of their nesting boxes. If you feed them chicken feed from the store, try stopping that if possible. Myself and many people I know saw egg production drop when using feed from the store as opposed to table scraps and foraging.
Checked. I thought so too but I kept them in the run for two days and only the reds laid eggs. Normally their run door opens up at sunrise and closes at sunset so they're 100% free range. I do feed them a 50:50 mix of organic starter and layer. I'll cut back and maybe just toss some in the yard and see if anything changes. I'm thinking the people we bought them from overestimated their age by a month or more.
>she
anon...
that's a rooster
No it isnt.
ok, I asked on Culinaly but apparently Culinaly knows more about chickens than them, what do I do about this sore on my hens foot? I looked up a video on bumblefoot in chickens and it described treatment as a 20 minutes a day for two entire weeks before actually removing the 'bumble' and then daily post care, is this or culling really my two options? The chicken won't even let me touch her, much less catch her and experiment on her for 20 minutes a day.
I've had to deal with bumblefoot a couple times.
Soak the affected foot in Epsom salt water for 20 minutes (or longer if she'll let you).
Using tweezers and a needle, remove the plug. Plug should be a bit of foreign matter stuck into the swollen area.
After plug is removed flush area thoroughly with peroxide.
Keep her foot dry for the night and she should be set the next day. Check on it in a few days, if it's still the same size or larger do it again. Mine cleared up on the first go.
Also:wash your hands thoroughly when done. You're dealing with staph and you can absolutely catch it.
BOCK.